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Table Farm Begins Again
Home Events Reaching in Love Table Farm Begins…

23rd Street & Anita Avenue, Sacramento, CA 95822

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  • September 16, 2023
  • 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

  • Reaching in Love

Table Farm Begins Again

We hope you will join us as we say goodbye to the soil we’ve tended in Hollywood Park for three years which we call Table Farm. We will formally close and bless the farm together in anticipation of moving to a new farm location later this fall.

Please join us from 9am – Noon on Saturday, September 16.

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We will pull up crops, roll up landscape fabric, disassemble structures, etc. There will be moderate to heavy lifting and standing, crouching and bending.

While bittersweet, this will be a time to commemorate our community’s reaching in love at Table Farm and say goodbye to the land so many of us have grown to care for as we then prepare to move to a new location in the coming months.

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"Messianic Secret"
FROM THE ARTIST:
“Messianic Secret”
Inspired by John 2:1-11
14″x18″ Acrylic on canvas

The Wedding at Cana is my favorite text because there is a lot of humor in it. There’s humor in a mother approaching her son and telling him to do something without ever actually telling him to do it. There’s his pouty resistance to his mother’s non-demand while she completely ignores him and paints him in a corner. There is humor in a raucous wedding reception where the people are so “lit” that the wine has run out. And, for me, it’s particularly humorous that there’s this huge, beautiful secret of which only a few people are aware.

Those people include Jesus’ mother and the select servants who help him pull off the miracle that inaugurates his ministry. Servants are normally meant to be inconspicuous, so I wanted to focus on the servant who goes to the chief steward with a cup full of what, as far as he’s concerned, is water.

If Jesus—whose ministry has not started, so there haven’t been any wonders associated with him yet—tells you to fill jars with water and draw from the jar to give to the chief steward, what is going through your mind at that moment? I invite the viewer to focus on this servant and all his curiosity and expectation, and think of a time when you were surprised by something God did. What actions preceded the miracle? Did it make sense? What did you know, and what was hidden from you? What “secrets” might God be keeping from you now as God works clandestinely on your behalf?

—Rev. T. Denise Anderson